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UN admits 70% of boat migrants not eligible for asylum

Virginia Hale
Breitbart
Wed, 27 May 2020 19:18 UTC
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The vast majority of boat migrants are not refugees, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has admitted.

Vincent Cochetel, the UNHCR special envoy for the illegal immigration situation in the Mediterranean, demanded EU member states give private NGOs unimpeded access to ferry migrants to Europe.

In an interview with InfoMigrants published on Tuesday, the French official claimed that so-called sea rescue is a "basic principle of humanity", likening open borders NGOs to the emergency services, such as fire brigades.

"If European states do not want to take responsibility for rescue at sea, let them make way for civil society actors," he said. However, he failed to comment on the fact that European taxpayers — rather than mass migration-backing NGOs — are left housing and footing the bill for migrants who are picked up in the Mediterranean.

Comment: So if they are not refugees, why is there such a widespread push from European leaders to allow them to stay? Perhaps the reason is that illegal immigrants can disrupt and destabilize the societies they join, further dividing the populace against each other and keeping eyes off the evil and incompetent deeds of the leaders.

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Almost quarter of Russians believe coronavirus is fictional, according to new study

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 28 May 2020 19:16 UTC
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More than 23% of Russians think the coronavirus threat is not real and the epidemic is made up, according to a survey by Moscow's Higher School of Economics, published on Thursday.

Conducted in May, the survey of 30,000 Russians found that 23.2% believe Covid-19 is a work of fiction, while 9.6% of respondents think the danger is being exaggerated. This suggests that when combined, almost a third (32.8%) of respondents do not fully believe in the coronavirus threat, the RBK newspaper reported.

The study revealed a dramatic split in Russian attitudes toward self-isolation and the government's anti-coronavirus measures. Of the non-believers, 43% decided to visit relatives during self-isolation, and three-quarters (74.2%) were convinced that there was no need for the mandated stay-at-home regime. Those who believe in the danger of the virus visited their relatives much less often, with only 18% going to see family members.
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Light Sabers

Race war or bust? MSM smothers racial unity over police killing of Minneapolis man by reminding blacks & whites to hate each other

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 27 May 2020 18:53 UTC
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© Reuters / Eric Miller
The brutal police murder of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis united all races and political stripes in shocked outrage. So why is MSM invoking every racially-divisive incident they can to set society at each other's throats?

Liberals and conservatives alike were horrified on Monday by a widely-circulated Facebook video showing a white police officer choking an unarmed, handcuffed black man to death by kneeling on his neck for upwards of seven minutes, ignoring his increasingly feeble cries for help until he went limp. Regardless of their race, viewers demanded the officer - Minneapolis Police Department's Derek Chauvin - be charged with murder and cheered at the news he and three colleagues present during the Memorial Day incident had been suspended from the force.


Comment: See: 'I can't breathe' 2.0: Minneapolis police in hot water as suspect dies during BRUTAL chokehold arrest - HUGE crowds clash with cops during protest


Given the country's oft-lamented polarization, it's rare to see such broad agreement on something as controversial as a police killing. But the sight of George Floyd struggling to wheeze out "I can't breathe" while Chauvin mocked the anguished cries of onlookers convinced many to put aside their ideological feuds and get outraged. Seeing the life slowly choked out of the 46-year-old for nothing more than allegedly "resisting arrest" over supposedly forging a check at a supermarket was beyond the pale.
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Dollar Gold

Arizona slaps Google with consumer fraud lawsuit

Ben Mahaney
Yahoo Finance
Thu, 28 May 2020 18:02 UTC
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The state of Arizona has filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's Google over its location data practices. "Though Google claims to have obtained consent to collect and store its users' data, that consent is based on a misleading user interface, as well as other unfair and deceptive acts and practices," the lawsuit claims.

Attorney General Mark Brnovich tweeted that the state brought forward this action, which seeks unspecified damages, to "put a stop to Google's deceptive collection of user data, obtain monetary relief, and require Google to disgorge gross receipts arising from its Arizona activities."
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Bullseye

Best of the Web: I've signed death certificates during Covid-19. Here's why you can't trust any of the statistics on the number of victims

Malcolm Kendrick
RT
Thu, 28 May 2020 18:04 UTC
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As an NHS doctor, I've seen people die and be listed as a victim of coronavirus without ever being tested for it. But unless we have accurate data, we won't know which has killed more: the disease or the lockdown?

I suppose most people would be somewhat surprised to know that the cause of death, as written on death certificates, is often little more than an educated guess. Most people die when they are old, often over eighty. There is very rarely going to be a post-mortem carried out, which means that, as a doctor, you have a think about the patient's symptoms in the last two weeks of life or so. You go back over the notes to look for existing medical conditions.

Previous stroke, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, angina, dementia and suchlike. Then you talk to the relatives and carers and try to find out what they saw. Did they struggle for breath, were they gradually going downhill, not eating or drinking?
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Snakes in Suits

Moscow's former chief doctor tells RT coronavirus to 'go into hibernation' in summer just like most flu viruses


RT
Thu, 28 May 2020 16:01 UTC
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The novel coronavirus will lose its power in summer and, as it passes through more people, it will no longer be 'new' for immune systems and will behave like flu or even just a cold, Moscow's former head doctor has told RT.

The novel coronavirus will become less dangerous once the summer hits, Deputy Director of the Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccines and Sera Nikolay Filatov told RT.
Microorganisms, like viruses and bacteria, go through different biological cycles, during which their virulence and contagiousness levels change. Respiratory viruses always 'go into hibernation' during summer. Nobody really knows why that happens.
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Iran's head rabbi berates Israelis, Netanyahu: 'You don't represent Judaism'


Times of Israel
Tue, 26 May 2020 17:50 UTC
Iranian head rabbi Yehuda Gerami
© Screenshot/TwitterIranian head rabbi Yehuda Gerami in an interview with Iranian TV broadcast on Quds Day, May 22, 2020.
Tehran's chief rabbi on Friday lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jewish Israelis as Iran marked its annual anti-Israel Quds Day.

Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, the head rabbi of the Iranian Jewish community, said in a Hebrew message aimed at Israelis: "You don't represent Judaism."

Prominent figures in the Jewish community of Iran, where the Islamist regime avowedly seeks Israel's destruction, intermittently issue anti-Israel statements that match the regime's agenda. There has been a spate of such statements disseminated in Iranian media in recent days, including by Iran's sole Jewish MP and by an extreme anti-Zionist rabbi, while Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his calls for Israel to be eliminated.


Comment: Some readers might be surprised to learn that there is a significant contingent of Orthodox Jews who vehemently oppose the state of Israel and the noxious political ideology of Zionism - and they're not just Iranian Jews.


Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, there were some 100,000 Jews in Iran; by 2016, according to an Iranian census, that number had fallen to below 10,000.

"We Iranian Jews want to sent this message to the Zionists, and first and foremost to Netanyahu," Gerami said. "Know that you Zionists do not represent Judaism and do not represent the Jewish people," Gerami said in a statement broadcast on Iranian television. "You only represent the idea of a political movement whose ideas and values oppose the ideas and values of our holy Torah and the Jewish religion."

"We strongly condemn your aggressive actions and emphasize to the whole world: There is a big difference between Judaism and Zionism," Gerami said.

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Arrow Up

Yankee, go home! Syrian children pelt US convoy with stones


Sputnik
Thu, 28 May 2020 17:47 UTC
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The eastern Syrian provinces of al-Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor remain a major source of tensions between Damascus and Washington amid the ongoing tense standoff between Syrian forces, local civilians and US troops and their allies.

Children and teens in the villages of al-Qahira and al-Dushaisha in the al-Hasakah countryside have intercepted a convoy of US military vehicles, pelting it with stones.

Video of the incident provided by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows more than a dozen children, some as young as 5-6 years old, picking up stones and throwing them at the tan trucks, one of them flying an American flag, and running after them as they drive down the road honking their horns.


A SANA correspondent said the children forced the vehicles to head back in the direction they came from, although it is not clear from the video if this is the case. The Pentagon has not commented on the incident.
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Family

Even Fox News is triggered by the lack of social distancing at Ozarks bash


RT
Tue, 26 May 2020 22:48 UTC
Ozarks
© Twitter/Lawler50/via REUTERSRevelers celebrate Memorial Day weekend at Osage Beach of the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
Brian Kilmeade, who has been arguing to lift Covid-19 lockdown measures, and other Fox talking heads did not have much support for people in the Ozarks partying in viral videos and ignoring social distancing measures.

"It destroys my argument that we are reacting responsibly as a country," Kilmeade said on Fox News' 'Outnumbered' on Tuesday when talking about the footage out of Missouri over the Memorial Day weekend.

The 'Fox & Friends' co-host has been one of the network's sharpest critics of lockdown orders across the US, but the Ozarks video took him by surprise and he admits that irresponsible social gathering "ruins it for everyone."


Comment: It just goes to show how many people are desperate for social contact after months of house arrest, and they're behaving rather appropriately having seen the proof in their everyday lives that this virus is less harmful than the seasonal flu.

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Corona

Best of the Web: New Zealand secretly allowed Hollywood team working on 'Avatar II' exemption from lockdown as 'essential workers'


The Australian
Tue, 26 May 2020 09:34 UTC
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Sam Worthington as Jake Sully in Avatar, left, and New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern.
Key individuals behind the sequel to Hollywood blockbuster Avatar are among hundreds of foreigners quietly let into New Zealand under little-known exemptions to its closed border regime.

New Zealand closed its borders in March to deal with COVID-19, allowing only Kiwis and returning residents to return.

Jacinda Ardern's government has since tweaked its regulations to allow humanitarian arrivals and essential workers in, including in the health sectors. But only today, under questioning, was it revealed Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford has also been admitting high-value foreigners.

Comment: No Ms Ahern, the problem is you don't think at all. Which means you don't really care either.

This is what all these examples of government and cultural elites breaking the rules is telling us; they don't actually believe a 'killer virus' is going around.

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